Guilty Pleasures of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Genre by BlueSunWorshipper

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Guilty Pleasures of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Genre

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UPDATED: Thursday, September 16, 2004 00:52
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Monday, August 2, 2004 10:26 PM

FRED1988

Evil Dead 3

I don't like horror movies as a rule, but this was one of the funniest, weirdest movies I've seen. Plus, it stars Bruce Campbell. I haven't watched ED 1 or 2 so can't speak to their, uhhh, quality.

Princess Bride is NOT a guilty pleasure. It's just a pleasure.

All my life I wanted to be somebody. I guess I should have been more specific.

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Tuesday, August 3, 2004 1:01 AM

AROUNDBROWNCOAT

This is my first post and I thought this would be a nice little topic to warm-up on.

Man, all of you guys have said some of my favorite movies/series already!

the guilty pleasures:
Real Genius (!)
Robotech
Gundam Wing
Tremors (and a bit of the TV series too)
Time Bandits (!)
The Labryinth
Godzilla (any and all)
The Princess Bride
Evil Dead II
Army of Darkness

miscellaneous:
Are You Afraid of the Dark
You Can't Say that on Television
Pete and Pete
(You see where I'm goin' with this? the heyday of nickelodeon)

the be all and all of guilty pleasures: any and all MST'd film
I'm sorry to say that I have seen "This Island Earth" and various "Prince of Space" movies sans our three favorite critics (and liked them somewhat...).

Real Genius you should be proud to love if you love it (the soundtrack is so 80's it's a guilty pleasure in itself). Most of the movies under "guilty pleasures" are my all time favorites. I don't feel a bit guilty about watching any of them or declaring my fondness for them!

I wish I could think of more, this brings back a heck of a lot of memories. Oh well.

Well, there is my first post and I hope to have more. This is a great site! I got turned on to the firefly series a couple weeks ago and have been a fan since and was happy to stumble on this great resource for all things concerning this great (but shortlived series).

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 4:37 AM

CYBERSNARK

Welcome newbie!

Quote:
Originally posted by aRoundBrowncoat:
Gundam Wing

What's so guilty about that?

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Thursday, August 5, 2004 4:57 AM

KETHRYVERIS

Ha! You all missed one. Earth Girls are Easy. I stop and watch it everytime I run across it on TV just to see the scene of Jeff Goldblum with his shirt off. Plus Michael McKean, Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans. What a silly movie. My favorite song is where Julie Brown is singing about being blond.
As to The Greatest American Hero, one of my favorites. You gotta love a superhero named Ralph who lost the instruction manual for the suit.

Kethryveris

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Tuesday, August 31, 2004 11:08 PM

AGENTMONKEY

hola all.. :-)
crazy how the web can turn a 2-minute search (last starfighter and other 80's flicks for sampling for a song i'm working on...mwuahah) into a half-hour thang...google brought me hereabouts, and now i see this wonderful topic. :-)

did anyone mention howard the duck? props to the guy way up there who pointed out how 'enemy mine' was pretty much a 'commercial failure,' but the material it comes from is amazing and, like, the message was so peaceful, man! ;-) 'aliens and humans can overcome their diff's...why can't we?' hehe...

hey, did the chica who asked about the movie that ends up with the ship blowing itself up get an answer? if so, are you thinking about the flick where when the ship explodes one of the astronauts is 'sailing' a piece of the ship into the sun, or something like that? i would kill to know the name of that movie...saw it in early 80's as a little boy and i remember it was the movie (well, asides from star wars) that started me on the dark road to sci-fi, fantasy addiction. if anyone remembers the name of it, i will bless your unborn children from afar. :-) i'm david at eatpeople dot com...

'last starfighter' perfectly embodied everything that got me hooked on video games...and laugh if you will at my nostalgia, but i get lil' prickly-hair-standing-up things when i hear the theme song.

last one for me, at least...fantasy...who could EVER forget 'hawk the slayer,' if you saw it? as someone pointed out months ago somewhere else, legolas (lord of the rings) style of rapid-fire arrow-shooting is pretty damn similar to the archer in 'hawk.' plus, that eerie freaky music that i remember still, and it's been like 20 years since i've seen it...good stuff. :-)

as an agnostic insomniac with dyslexia, i lay awake all night wondering if i let the god out. :)
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david at eatpeople dot com

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Friday, September 3, 2004 1:23 AM

DEANNAMAY

Well, crap, I typed this nice long note, then stretched my legs and hit the power. Let's see what I remember

I loved Princess Bride, mainly because of Montoya and the ending of his part of the story. I think that is what turned fluff into something that you wanted to see more than once.

I loved Greatest American Hero, even with its cheesy special effects, they had a great cast, and good stories. Didn't they do a remake with some female getting the costume? Not the same, William Katt was the GAH, no one else.

Other shows I enjoyed, the Godzilla movies remind me of childhood Saturdays watching the sci-fi movies. I also liked to watch Star Blazers, does anyone else remember that? My first experience with anime, looking back. I remember getting up for school a little early to catch the show before I had to catch the bus. Red Dwarf, with Rimmer, was always funny. I liked the Tremors movies, esp. the first two, I watch them whenever they are on. Sliders, as long as Q-ball was on (to take a line from Rembrandt Brown) was good. I know there are tons of other shows you don't really want to admit you watch, but I am not recalling them. Oh yeah, I liked the Godzilla movie remake, but mainly because of Matthew Broderick, I could have done without all the minizillas running about.

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Monday, September 6, 2004 6:48 PM

FRANCO

In my case shameless is a better adjective than guilty. I am insatiable in the scifi genre.

A couple that I didn't see mentioned are Screamers and Saturn 3. Both great robot flicks.

Classics, maybe not but I liked them.

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Monday, September 6, 2004 7:11 PM

ANKHAGOGO

Holy crap, y'all are killin' me with some of these! Meeeeeeemories.......
Anyhow..

There's no reason anyone should feel guilty about liking Powerpuff Girls (which I am watching right now, actually)! And Cassie Claire's Very Secret Diaries are just hysterical. Like --er---someone said, they're kinda slashy, but it's mostly implication, for comedy purposes. God, I LOVE em.

There's also a fanfic series called "Bagenders", which is a combo of The Young Ones and a soap opera, with the living members of the Fellowship sharing a house in London in modern times. As we all know, I am link-insertion retarted, but I suspect a websearch with just "Bagenders" will pull it up for ya. Warning -- There is a LOT to this one.

I can't believe no-one's said Thunderbirds, and I DO mean the original, unbelievably cheesy marionette show, not the lame live action movie. Those puppets are just SO great!

I also have a special weakness for the animated Hobbit movie, although I've never seen it. We had a picture disc (!) with bits of the soundtrack narrative on it, and to this day, whenever I hear John Huston, my first thought is "Gandalf!"

What else?
Nate & Hayes -- an early 80s pirate movie with Tommy Lee Jones. Yes, pirates.
And speaking of pirates -- The Pirate Movie. Oh, god,I can't believe I said that out loud. The shame...
I do like the Emmerich Godzilla movie, but mainly because it cracks me up that the kick-ass guy in it is FRENCH. I'll watch almost anything with Jean Reno in it.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen should probably fall in this category, too, shouldn't it?
I also still kinda like Explorers -- you know, a very young Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix meeting aliens and I forget what else happens. Other than an alien sings a Robert Palmer song.

Eomer: "Hi! Stop me if you've heard this one ...an elf, a dwarf, and a man walk into the Riddermark..."

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Monday, September 6, 2004 8:50 PM

SOUPCATCHER

Okay. I don't remember if this one has been mentioned before (a quick search didn't turn it up) but I used to love Voyagers. They traveled through time to help things along - great fun! I didn't find out until later how much of a "been there-done that" this concept actually was. But at the time...

And now that I've thought of that show the floodgates of memory open. I had my hair permed back then (damn the eighties, damn them to hades) and looked like Jeffrey. Fortunately only one picture from that time period survived. Must. Destroy. That.

And didn't the other actor kill himself by accident pointing a blank gun at his head? Something about a piece hitting him in the temple? Can't remember his name, I keep thinking of the comic book character with the nasty flesh-over-lip, Jonah Hex. [Google search] Ah. Jon-Erik Hexum. Close.

So that's one of my guilty pleasures. That and Robotech. (Stage fright. Go away. This is my big day...) Funny the little things that stick with me.

I shaved off my beard for you, devil woman!

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Tuesday, September 7, 2004 7:11 AM

ANKHAGOGO

Oh my god, I can't believe I forgot Voyagers! I even have the pilot episode on VHS, if you believe that. And even scarier? If I were to look through my "pile o crap from 80s Tiger Beat magazines that will one day be a scrapbook", I promise you that I have pics of Jon-Erik Hexum and probably a news article about his death. As I recall, it was similar to what happened with Brandon Lee on the set of the Crow, rather than acutal suicide.
Man, my sister and I watched that show like crazy people -- I really think that show is responsible for my mild obssession with alternate realities and time paradoxes.

Yes, I am laughing at your Jeffrey hair. And isn't he's Punky Brewster's brother?

Eomer: "Hi! Stop me if you've heard this one ...an elf, a dwarf, and a man walk into the Riddermark..."

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Tuesday, September 7, 2004 7:29 PM

KELLAINA

Quote:
Originally posted by agentmonkey:

did anyone mention howard the duck?

Now that is a great guilty pleasure movie!!

I also have to add Space Camp. I loved that movie when I was a kid (and still watch it whenever I see it on tv).

If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. -"Angel"

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Friday, September 10, 2004 5:32 AM

GAVIDA

Quote:
Originally posted by insight spinner:

Oh...what is that movie from the USC film school where the computer blows up the ship. That's another one. somebody help me out here.

Quote:
Originally posted by AGENTMONKEY:

hey, did the chica who asked about the movie that ends up with the ship blowing itself up get an answer? if so, are you thinking about the flick where when the ship explodes one of the astronauts is 'sailing' a piece of the ship into the sun, or something like that? i would kill to know the name of that movie...saw it in early 80's as a little boy and i remember it was the movie (well, asides from star wars) that started me on the dark road to sci-fi, fantasy addiction. if anyone remembers the name of it, i will bless your unborn children from afar. :-) i'm david at eatpeople dot com...

I think you two are talking about John Carpenter's "Dark Star", where the bomb the ship crew wanted to use to blow up an instable planet starts to become philosophical and has to be talked into not exploding because of the defective release mechanism, but in the end states "It was dark. I was alone. There be light." (or close to that

)

If that is not the one you are talking about, forget what I sad

Keep flying,
Gavida

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Friday, September 10, 2004 7:31 AM

INSIGHT SPINNER

Quote:
Originally posted by Gavida:
Quote:
Originally posted by insight spinner:

Oh...what is that movie from the USC film school where the computer blows up the ship. That's another one. somebody help me out here.

Quote:
Originally posted by AGENTMONKEY:

hey, did the chica who asked about the movie that ends up with the ship blowing itself up get an answer? if so, are you thinking about the flick where when the ship explodes one of the astronauts is 'sailing' a piece of the ship into the sun, or something like that? i would kill to know the name of that movie...saw it in early 80's as a little boy and i remember it was the movie (well, asides from star wars) that started me on the dark road to sci-fi, fantasy addiction. if anyone remembers the name of it, i will bless your unborn children from afar. :-) i'm david at eatpeople dot com...

I think you two are talking about John Carpenter's "Dark Star", where the bomb the ship crew wanted to use to blow up an instable planet starts to become philosophical and has to be talked into not exploding because of the defective release mechanism, but in the end states "It was dark. I was alone. There be light." (or close to that )

If that is not the one you are talking about, forget what I sad

Keep flying,
Gavida

YUP. thanks. boy, when did i even write that post? LOL!

insight spinner
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Just an object. It doesn't mean what you think....

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Thursday, September 16, 2004 12:52 AM

JENDANDY

Someone mentioned Labyrinth, one of my all time favorite movies!

My hubby used to always make fun of me for it, he's never seen it but knows it's from the 80s and has singing puppets and David Bowie in it. Sounds pretty exciting to me! LOL
The same person, sorry I don't remember your name, mentioned Pete and Pete which brought back some fond memories. That and Salute Your Shorts used to be my favorite shows as a kid. Hey, remember when Nickelodeon was good?

-Sig Rebel-

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